The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
New Books.

THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL Dis
TRIBUTIoN OF ANIMALS, by Angelo Heilprin
d. Appleton & Co. This is another valu-
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readable form the more significant facts
connected with the past and present dis
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listing faunas and, second, to furnish to the
special student work of general reference
Both these objects are accomplished in
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"THE Poison PROBLEM, or The Cause
and Cure of Intemperance," by Felix l..
Oswald, MD. New York: ID. Appleton a.
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enemy of human society.
On THE SUsoUEHANNA, a novel, by DIR.
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pendently of the riches already possessed
by the heroine. The original portion of the
plot is the complication connected with the
young ladys mother. Her father, on his
death-bed, reveals to her the fact that her
mother is still alive, just where he is not
able to tell her before he expires. He is I'M
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wife, though he had offered to marry her a
number of times before his daughters birth.
The unraveling of this plot is the main
point in the story
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IRISH STRUGGLE, by Hon. Thomas Power
O'Connor,, MP, Robert McWade and
others. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers
This great work is written by distinguished
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and is profusely illustrated 1t contains q
graphically written story of the injustice
and oppression inflicted upon the Irish ten
antry, and history of the gigantic move
ment throughout Ireland, America anC
Great Britain for Home Rule" together
with biographies of the great leaders--Glad